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2009 Winner announced here.

Welcome!

This is the new and much more interactive website for the North East Book Award. As well as giving you lots of information about the books on the shortlist, the authors who wrote them and ideas about what to read next it also gives you the chance to have your say about what you’re enjoying reading – and maybe even what you’re not! – and to comment on the views of others.

Obviously the website is very much in it’s early stages so we’d also like to hear what else we could include. Email us at northeastbookaward@yahoo.com with your views and reviews, we’d love to hear from you.

Get reading – and writing! This website can only be as good as you make it.

History
The NEBA was set up 3 years ago because of popular demand; those schools who had taken part in the North East Teenage Book Award wanted a similar scheme to enthuse their younger readers in y7 and 8 about new books and exciting new authors too.

The aim of the younger and teenage awards remain the same; we want to make young people more aware of the quality and variety of exciting writing out there, to celebrate and support the authors to and create opportunities for the authors to meet their avid readers. We remain amazed at how many schools want to take part and now some 15 schools sign up every year from across the whole NE region.

NEBA caters for the reading needs of OUR young people, allowing them to voice their opinions about the books and the reading which matters to them. Their vote decides the winner each year, their opinions are sought when drawing up the long and shortlists and they are critical, highly perceptive and insightful readers. Because NEBA is all about reading it’s also the only award in the world (that we know of) where the student judges not the winning author get the prizes.